Republican Steve Daines Wins Montana Senate Race

Republican U.S. Representative Steve Daines has won the U.S. Senate race in Montana, CNN projected on Tuesday, a gain for Republicans hoping to gain a Senate majority.

Daines, 52, defeated Democrat Amanda Curtis, a teacher and first-term state representative.

He succeeds Democrat John Walsh, who announced in August he was ending his campaign for re-election following reports that he had plagiarized parts of a research paper he wrote at the Army War College.